What’s even more crazy is that when we tell these experiences how common it is. How often we read about things like things like this. I remember shortly after #metoo blew up my husband and I were in the car. We were talking about it and he flippantly says “so are you a #metoo?” and I just said “yeah”. I remember how…

Having your child die a gruesome death from a horrible mistake seems like punishment enough.

I honestly used to roll my eyes and blame “bad parents”

Completely agree with you. While I never forgot my kid in the car, I had nightmares constantly that I would. Also, my at-the-time BFF and I went to lunch one day from her home, completely forgetting that her one-year-old son was snoozing in his crib. We realized right when we were being seated what we had done and…

I remember one morning with my youngest I was so damn tired. Just exhausted. He was about 6 months old. Maybe a little older? I was on autopilot and I was just driving to work. I was about a block away from the office and he made a cooing noise - a gurgle or something - after having been super quiet the whole way to…

This, I believe, is every parent’s secret nightmare.

I think that WaPo article should be required reading for everyone.

I had a really hard time discerning the ~point~ of this article. The title suggest that Improper Princesses are a problem, the conclusion just talks about how Beauty is different from the rest of them (which I don’t entirely agree with, having read a lot of IP books in my day). Is it just a literary critique and…

I really loved Patricia C Wrede’s Enchanted Forest Chronicles. I’ve reread them several times as an adult, and I am so glad someone got them in my hands as a young teen. I definitely understood from reading those books, and from Ella Enchanted, that the overarching theme in Improper Princess books was that being…

You know what, I love this. I avoided this song for a while just on the premise that Billy Ray Cyrus is involved. But I saw the video clip yesterday (I lost the remote) and it was the first time I had heard the song and ... I fucking loved it? He’s so cute! His voice is actually phenomenal (I wouldn’t have expected a…

i just had to do this speech on female explorers for a class i’m taking, and i learned about the inimitable ms. bly that she was quite taken with the idea of “Around the World in 80 Days,” and suggested to her editor that she do it! she wanted to beat phineas fogg by returning in 75 days. she left with 2 days notice…

Because Laura Dern is also a treasure.

Mine is related to yours but in a very lame way: I’d like to learn how to drive again. I used to love driving, I used to drive all the time. When I first got to New York back when LaGuardia was Mayor (not really but it feels like it) whenever I had to go anywhere I’d check out flights, Amtrak, and rental cars, and…

Parents. I want parents. I would like to, for however long, feel the purported unconditional love of growing up in a “family.” Maybe get grounded for a week or so. Barring that, I would like to once again eat some mother fucking VIENETTA.

Not having a passport for that particular reason is the ULTIMATE power move.

One of my favorite factoids about the British monarchy is that the Queen doesn’t have a passport. Wiki explains this more succinctly than I could:

It’s amazing to stop and think that old money, for her, goes back about 900+ years.

The human mind, willing itself to believe that nothing is amiss, is quite powerful and this magical thinking propels Nai Nai, and by extension, her family, into living a double life.

I’m an old person so I’d have to Google most of those terms but what I think you’re saying is “Man murdered teenager. Man took graphic pictures of dead teenager and posted to social media as trophy. Man’s followers and public media began victim shaming dead teenager”.

“The Cigarette—which sounds really, really good, and has a frankly incredible cover—is out in October.”